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Photo of the Day (January 2008)

Wild huckleberries

Up in the woods behind my cabin in mid-autumn.

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Model: NIKON D50
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55mm w/18-55 kit lens

Nevada Jack: I just love the red rock country, and you captured it beautifully.
 
Father Jack said:
Great photo, I love it .. :)

I don't think you can really call a day dull, when the sky is blue and the sun is shinning .. :confused:

FJ
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That's the trick...the sky wasn't blue and the sun was hazy. Use of Filters and some Post Processing to get decent colour into it.
 
Doylem said:
Now I'm confused too... :)

Wasn't that your pic of a bird of paradise flower? It's a lovely pic (whoever took it...), but I thought I'd seen it posted here before, that's all...
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No, it was not my photo! I just thank an author for this pix! There are a lot of photos which are repeated because we cite them!!!

Here I put NO my photo :)
 
Cause for apparent softness?

I just posted this same photo in the recent D80 thread since I was the one who mentioned having infrequent-but-undeniable problems with autofocus. Apologies for the cross-posting. Large size is to help see what I'm talking about; seems soft around the subject's eyes and neck jewelry (?).

Stationary subject
I was stationary, too
Cloudy, but decent light
He was maybe eighty feet away. I had the VR function enabled.
(Sorry, I don't have the EXIF data handy so I can't say what settings were used)
Cold day - approximately freezing or just below.
Flag was moving around quite a bit, but I had plenty of time to pre-focus when the flag was well out of the way of his face.
DX VR 18 - 200 lens
Sorry, I can't remember the AF settings. I'm pretty sure I default to AF-S. For this shot, I selected the center AF point, locked the focus, then recomposed.
Could stand a better crop, but I got the shot I wanted with patience.

It just looks a bit soft to me. Could the cold conditions, including the chilled-battery effect- have caused this? Or is that just too tight of a desired focal point (left of the flagpole) for my AF settings? Doesn't seem to be camera shake.

Thanks...

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Stonehenge

...where the dew drops cry and the cats meow.

There was crazy freezing rain just a few minutes before this, I ducked into the gift shop (soaked), then saw the sun come out. Great dramatic clouds, the sun was close to setting, couldn't have asked for a better photo backdrop - but you wouldn't have guessed it an hour earlier.

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"Foggy Flight"
Canon 30D 85mm
f/2.8
1/8000
ISO 400
 

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colinmack said:
...where the dew drops cry and the cats meow.

There was crazy freezing rain just a few minutes before this, I ducked into the gift shop (soaked), then saw the sun come out. Great dramatic clouds, the sun was close to setting, couldn't have asked for a better photo backdrop - but you wouldn't have guessed it an hour earlier.

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Happen to have a larger version, around 1680x1050?
 
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